High earners will benefit most from today’s mini budget announcement. Speaking to Business Matters Paul Haywood-Schiefer, Senior Manager at leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg said: “The reversal of the recent increase to NIC rates will provide savings to all earners, where their income is above around £10,000 per annum (and assuming similar reductions are made […]
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Reforms to the off-payroll working rules, known as IR35, are to be scrapped from April 2023, the Treasury has announced. This will mean that from 6 April 2023, contractors working for an organisation via an intermediary will once again be responsible for determining their employment status and paying the appropriate amount of tax and national […]
Professor John Bryson, Chair in Enterprise and Economic Geography at the University of Birmingham offered his opinion about the economic measured announced today by Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Professor Bryson is an economic geographer whose research focusses on understanding people, organisations and the complex ways in which production is organised through space, place and various forms of […]
Made.com is seeking a buyer or emergency investment as the embattled online furniture retailer plans to shed more than a third of staff to stretch its dwindling cash reserves. The company, which in July warned of job cuts as increasingly cash-strapped consumers stopped spending on “big-ticket” items, has withdrawn full-year guidance as sales plummet. Made.com […]
UK SME’s have been very dismissive of Kwasi Kwarteng emergency mini budget, with some branding it as “Trussmoronics not Trussonomics”. We have spoken to a number of UK SMEs to get their reaction to the emergency mini budget that Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss hope will see Britain extricate itself from the current financial crisis engulfing the […]
UK SME’s have been very dismissive of Kwasi Kwarteng emergency mini budget, with some branding it as “Trussmoronics not Trussonomics”. We have spoken to a number of UK SMEs to get their reaction to the emergency mini budget that Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss hope will see Britain extricate itself from the current financial crisis engulfing the […]
Kwasi Kwarteng has announced that he will scrap the top 45p rate of income tax and cut the basic rate of income tax by 1p next year as part of a “bold and unashamed” push for growth. The chancellor announced £50 billion worth of tax cuts including scrapping the rise in national insurance, freezing corporation […]
Here are the main points of Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal statement on the government’s economic plan to drive down inflation and cut taxes to bolster growth. Energy bills Energy bills for households have been capped at an average of £2,500 a year for two years, a £1,000 saving at current energy prices. Bills have also been […]
Newbury Racecourse reported good-to-firm going in the first half of the year as punters went back to the races after the pandemic. With 15 meetings welcoming paying customers compared with only two last year, and ten behind closed doors, the number of attendants jumped from 4,400 to 57,300, only 2 per cent down on pre-Covid […]